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Book Based BanterSun, 03 Dec 2017 14:09:39 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1Comment on Ep 178; Simon Goes Solo by T. Marrannehttp://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/2017/12/02/ep-178-simon-goes-solo/#comment-6684
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 14:09:39 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1317#comment-6684So sorry to hear you and Thomas have been ill. It’s always wonderful to find a new episode, but l certainly understand how life can get in the way. It’s a shame that you received a few negative comments….how embarrassing! Thank you for sharing your time. The episodes are always delightful and are appreciated so much.
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Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:31:31 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1300#comment-6674East Africa recs: Our Lady of the Nile and Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga for Rwanda, The First Wife by Pauline Chiziane for Mozambique, There is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan for South Sudan, The January Children by January Elhillo for Sudan (poetry!) – these are all books I read in 2016 as I worked on my “read a book from every African country” project that I will never finish. But they are the best.
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Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:23:22 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1287#comment-6671Gah blog ate my comment I think… but I would be so there for a reading retreat, especially in the nc or Virginia mountains! I live an hour south of Asheville. I’m bad at planning logistics but would be happy to help plan day to day stuff and bake things.
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Sun, 06 Aug 2017 05:40:53 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1282#comment-6661I loved The Man in the Electric Blue Suit (The Year of the Ladybird). I wish more booktubers would read/talk about it. I think its very interesting that the US version not only changed covers but titles.
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Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:43:54 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1280#comment-6654[…] preparing to go off the air, Michael and Ann recommended other podcasts for their fans and one was The Readers. I listened to Episode 171 a few weeks ago, in which Simon and Thomas were sharing their summer […]
]]>Comment on Ep 170; Bookish Places and Poetry by Miriam Freemanhttp://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/2017/06/07/ep-170-bookish-places-and-poetry/#comment-6639
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:34:26 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1278#comment-6639I enjoy your podcast very much! I just listened to the one about poetry and bookish places. My comments combine both of the topics. One of my favorite poets is Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967. He won the Pulitzer Prize in History for his biography of Abraham Lincoln and later the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Much of his poetry has to do with social justice, civil rights, racism, poverty….he was known as the Poet of the People because he spoke for people in our society whose voice would not have been heard otherwise. Similarities to Walt Whitman here. He lived at Connemara in Flat Rock, NC for the last 22 years of his life. The Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site owned by the National Park Service, is a magnificent bookish place to visit. It has been left just as it was when the Park Service purchased it in 1968 so it is like the Sandburgs went for a walk and invited us into their home in their absence. Truly a magical place. The Sandburgs moved 17,000 books from Michigan to Connemara and there remain 12,000 in the house collection. And then there are the 265 acres in the mountains on which the house stands with hiking trails and a goat farm. Mrs. Sandburg was internationally renowned for her goat breeding and most of the goats still on the property are descendants of her goats. Obviously I am a huge fan and I am a docent for house tours there. The house is currently in the midst of a major three year restoration project so the furnishings have been termporarily removed from the house but it remains open for tours. Google Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site for wonderful pictures and stories. Flat Rock is about 25 miles from Asheville, NC. Thomas Wolfe and O’Henry are buried in Asheville’s Riverside Cemetery and Thomas Wolfe’s mother’s boarding house is open for tours in Asheville. Perhaps you visited there when you were here in Asheville for Booktopia.
On the opposite coast, another of my favorite bookish places connected to an amazing poet is Robinson Jeffers. His home, which he called Tor House and which he built, overlooks the Pacific Ocean south of San Francisco. Another very magical place! I could go on and on….
Thanks again for your podcast.
Miriam Freeman
Asheville, NC
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Tue, 09 May 2017 16:25:14 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1272#comment-6626Oh my goodness, that is funny and frightening all at the same time.
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Tue, 09 May 2017 16:23:25 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1272#comment-6625I like your idea for an ideal book club discussion.
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Tue, 02 May 2017 19:07:15 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1272#comment-6624The first Book University course I would want to take would be a study of Douglas Adams and his influences. Although it would be taught in England, Cambridge probably, there would be the required “field” trip to Innsbruck. With Towel Day quickly approaching, it would obviously be a spring semester course culminating with the Towel Day Festivities.
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Sat, 29 Apr 2017 20:22:25 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1272#comment-6623Great episode. Here’s why the taxidermy clipping relates to Daphne.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2013/sep/13/curious-world-walter-potter-pictures-taxidermist-victorian

The creepiest museum ever was at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor. Kittens at schooldesks and other nighmareish horrors. I visited in 1993 and it was qujte bizarre.

I found your comments about book university really interesting. Especially the parts where you suggest speaking to an expert to understand what is really happening in a book.

I am studying English Lit online while working a full time job. I have been able, to a degree, to choose what parts of English I want to study. This means as well that I do not have the same chances of having discussions with others reading the books to develop ideas. I can tell you that listening to the lecturers, I have disagreed with them on several occasions with regards to what a book “means”.

I agree that discussing books with others is a brillant way to get a different take on how everyone experiences the book. This is why I am a huge fan of book clubs. The one I belong to is so diverse in attendees that my views on books have often been altered merely by our discussions of them.

I think you guys should talk about your ideal book clubs! Who would you want in it? If you could choose anyone? The problem with academia with regards to books is this idea that there is a “right” way to read a book. This idea of dissecting a book; the blue curtains represent the main characters depression, it represents the nobility of the character, blah blah blah.

Sometimes, the curtains are just blue.

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Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:24:37 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1252#comment-6608I’m often a Thomas, I just haven’t taken the time to comment 🙂 I plan to rectify that this year 🙂
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Thu, 02 Mar 2017 22:57:41 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1252#comment-6607I’m glad you are undertaking the Willa Cather challenge. Part of me thought it might end up being an undertaking, but I find her work so readable and enjoyable that I think it is going to be quite the opposite.
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Thu, 02 Mar 2017 22:56:04 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1252#comment-6606Sometimes I feel like there is something wrong with me when every one else is raving about a book and I end up hating it. I do tend to have a contrarian streak in me, so I am always worried I’m just letting that take over.
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Thu, 02 Mar 2017 22:54:41 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1252#comment-6605LOL. I have a feeling there are more Simons out there than Thomases.
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Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:00:15 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1252#comment-6604I listened on the way home from work this morning and am so glad you are back. Thomas has inspired me to try and read the 10 Willa Cather novels I have not read yet. I am almost done with Alexander’s Bridge and up next, O!Pioneers. Thanks for the push.
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Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:40:54 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1252#comment-6603Oh goodness, we don’t always agree but I hated The Girls (and myself for bothering to finish instead of bailing), bailed on The Queen of the Night, and TRULY hated The Red Chairs (I wanted it to be Anthony Marra and it just wasn’t.)
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Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:14:30 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1252#comment-6602I was listening to this episode on the way to work today and heard Thomas say he didn’t like The Queen of the Night. At the exact same time and with the same tone, Simon and I said “Really?”. Great minds Simon…great minds! Thomas – I have to look up the Hoggies and come up with an annual award for my favorite books, I hope I think of a clever name. Thanks guys!
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Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:51:09 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1249#comment-6601Yay! Can’t wait to have you back!
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Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:10:30 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1246#comment-6599Hello, Simon and Thomas, I really hope The Readers podcast is not stopped. Please, I have been waiting patiently for you guys getting things fixed, but now I am getting rather nervous.
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Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:35:15 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=384#comment-6597For Simon – a really good book set on a boat – Kage Baker’s The Bird of the River (2010). Summary via Google Books: “In this new story set in the world of The Anvil of the World and The House of the Stag, two teenagers join the crew of a huge river barge after their addict mother is drowned. The girl and her half-breed younger brother try to make the barge their new home. As the great boat proceeds up the long river, we see a panorama of cities and cultures, and begin to perceive patterns in the pirate attacks that happen so frequently in the river cities. Eliss, the girl, becomes a sharp-eyed spotter of obstacles in the river for the barge, and more than that, one who perceives deeply.”

It’s WONDERFUL.

]]>Comment on Ep 162; Book Culling and Curating by Kateghttp://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/2016/11/29/ep-162-book-culling-and-curating/#comment-6595
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:42:46 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1244#comment-6595Yes, it was The Magnificent Spinster. It was great!
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Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:47:33 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1244#comment-6594Oh, I’m glad you like May Sarton. Which one did I give away. The Magnificent Spinster?
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Tue, 06 Dec 2016 16:33:19 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1244#comment-6592Thomas, I also would take any May Sarton that you want to give to an appreciating reader! I’m always on the look-out for her, but I’ve only seen her once in second-hand bookstores and my local library has just one title of hers. I would love to read more of her.
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Sat, 03 Dec 2016 14:45:59 +0000http://bookbasedbanter.co.uk/thereaders/?p=1244#comment-6591I was in the car listening and Thomas said something about duplicate May Sarton books. I loved the one I won from you in Petoskey and would love to read more of her. Let me know if you are going to cull them and maybe we can rehome them. I look for them, but I am more of a new bookstore type and she is not among the fiction in the places I frequent. If I heard wrong, disregard and Merry Christmas!!
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